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Have you ever recommended a book to a girl before? Did she read it? Did she enjoy it?

>> No.15485308

I gave Houellebecq to my aunt when I was drunk at a family gathering. She said she liked it.

>> No.15485313

Once recommended Human, All Too Human to a classmate. She remembered it for years

>> No.15485317

>>15485303
yes, confederacy of dunces. she really liked it.

>> No.15485325

>>15485303
kafka short stories I think since she didn’t really have a long attention span and I didn’t have any other short stories

>> No.15485336

yes. i’ve also recommended books to seniors, youth, south asians, men who have one shorter leg because they contracted polio as children, and persians. i’ve had great success.

>> No.15485339

I recommended Kawabata and Tanizaki to a girl who was struck with a bad case of weebism. She liked the books but sadly still reads manga about homosexuals all day.

>> No.15485340

>>15485308
Based

>> No.15485395

carson mccullers, she liked it

>> No.15485453

>>15485303
The girl you like is getting throat fucked while you send her book recs that she will never read

>> No.15485491

>>15485303
>recommending books to anyone
Imagine being such an egoist.

>> No.15485515

>>15485491
I think it's nice. Not saying hey read this, but gift or borrow, if you know the person will be appreciated

>> No.15485518

>>15485303
I haven't talked to a girl since middle school desu

>> No.15485527

>>15485515
If you've such a rapport with someone that you know they'll appreciate a book, there's not much ego in that. This is not what the majority of people who recommend books do, however.

>> No.15485693

>>15485303
Lolita (book and film), and yes, very much so.

>> No.15485743
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What can we do, my handsome intellectuals, to bridge to gap between men and women? Obviously we've been bitching about each other for all of history but especially lately, I notice people with very warped sense of the opposite sex. Women are way smarter than they put out: " I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. " - Daisy from Gatsby. And men are way more sensitive and romantic than they put out. But somewhere, these traits got forgotten...

>> No.15485745

Recommended 1984 to a girl when I was like 16 or so and she didn't like it.
Recommended Moby-Dick to my current girlfriend and she didn't like it.

>> No.15486077

>>15485303
No, but I once made the mistake of reading the recommendation of a girl friend and it was such a shitty book that I never talked to a girl ever again

>> No.15486090

>>15485303
No, but I ruined her favorite YA Fantasy series by revealing that the author was a collective pseudonym for a team of writers.

>> No.15486134

I gave my copy of Silmarillion to a normie girl once. I laugh every time I imagine her face trying to read that shit trying to impress me haha jesus.

>> No.15486159

>>15486090
Which one?

>> No.15486165

>>15485745
Why the fuck would you recommend Moby Dick to your girlfriend? Moby Dick is a very masculine book to begin with. Not many girls will enjoy reading the bromance between Ishmael and Queeqeg and the various expositions on whaling, cetology, the hierarchical structure of the Pequod, and all the rest. Sailing in general, never mind whaling, is literally one of the most masculine professions in history. It’d be the same as your gf recommending you The Bell Jar or some extremely feminine book like that.

If you’re going to recommend your girl some books, at least pick ones that cater to feminine interests. Mansfield Park, Lolita, Shakespeare, Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, etc. All great books which appeal to women as well as to men.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that girls can only appreciate very girly literature (my gfs favourite book is Kafka’s Metamorphosis, which is not really gendered but has a male protagonist and was written by a male, so definitely exhibits some masculine influences), and of course it depends on the individual temperament and predilection of the girl you’re recommending to, but in a vacuum recommending something like Moby Dick to a woman betrays a deep ignorance of femininity and proper social conduct.

>> No.15486201

>>15485303
Multiple times, even given them my copy which they took and returned the next day saying they got to half of it but it's just "not for them".

>> No.15486239

>>15485303

I've seen about a thousand women with a bottle exactly like this covered in stickers
Women really are a bunch of herd mentality sheep

>> No.15486373

Told gf to read The Sun also Rises and she said it was just about a bunch of guys who like the same girl.

>> No.15486432

>>15486165
Calm down lol, it's my favourite book and I'd mention it occasionally so she decided to read it because I like it.
You are autistic.

>> No.15486672

>>15486373
well

>> No.15486679

>>15486432
This is the same as a girl recommending you chick lit. Get some social awareness

>> No.15486696
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15486696

i recommended the bible to buttercunt
going out on a limb here, but i dont think she read it

>> No.15486709

I gave a girl my copy of crime and punishment book once. Never got it back and she probably didn’t read it.

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>>15485336

>> No.15486742

>>15485303
A girl once insisted I read Little Women. I don't know who the fuck would read that over the age of 10.

>> No.15487317

>>15485303
Yes, to my wife. She read them and enjoyed them.

>> No.15487400

>>15485303
Yeah. Le Guin to a cutie a few years younger than me.

>> No.15487412

>>15485303
I've recommended lots of books to girls before. I'm currently reading essays of Jaques Ellul with a girl.

>> No.15487431

didion's white album to art hoe
confederacy of dunces to a crush
they both really liked them and i still talk to them about it

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>>15485308
whores love sex stories and how men are pitiful for sex

>> No.15487456

>>15485518
me too

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>>15485303
>Read Arthur Schopenhauer: Essay on women you stupid bitch

>> No.15487491

>>15487412
based and tedpilled

>> No.15487514

>>15485303
Dostoievski's Netochka to a friend, she liked it.

>> No.15488013

>>15485491
>ever intereacting with any other human and not spending your life in a monestary, living in perpetual silence

fucking narcissist

>> No.15488029

>>15485303
I gave my sister Ada or ardor
She didn't like it.

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>>15485303
reccd one flew over the cuckoos nest to my gf at the time. she hated it, said she didn’t get it. dumped her a week later.

>> No.15488042

>>15486090
shakespeare?

>> No.15488059

>>15485303
I've recommended Brecht before but to no avail.

>> No.15488060

>>15485743
Of course they are. But women aren't attracted to sensitivity and romance, unless it's momentary weakness from a strong man (which reveals their intimacy and her power over such strength).

>> No.15488077

>>15488013
unironically true

>> No.15488106

When I was 19 and didn't know anything about women other than I was attracted to them I went to a bookstore with a girl and bought her A Peace to End All Peace, a book on the treaties that ended WWI, because I thought it was the most interesting thing in the world at the time. She was a communications major and didn't know how to use a washing machine.

>> No.15488132

I've gotten 2 girls to read the Bible and 1 girl to read Spinoza's Ethics

Tried to get a girl who was "into poetry" to read The Flowers of Evil and she didn't get it

>> No.15488307

>>15488042
bro....
too soon

>> No.15488390

I've met many girls who were really into books and literature but none of that creatures was into the "ideas" and "the being of thought itself".

I never recommended them something sincere, because, yeah, them may read it, may even get something, but it's just a hobby for them.

Can you imagine a girl who can wash herself in her tears, cry not upon some melodramatic bullshit or a plot generally, but upon an idea itself, upon the soul of the author? Or maybe you know a girl who's life, soul and personality is really affected by ideas?

If you do know such a girl then i'm happy for you, because i never met one.

>> No.15488419

I gave my ex the plague, she read it in the bath and got the pages all crinkled

>> No.15488517

>>15486679
He didn't even explicity reccomend it though. Can he not talk about his favorite book with his gf?

>> No.15488806

I gave my ex A Farewell to Arms after she recommended All Quiet On The Western Front and she said she liked it and specifically enjoyed the beginning of the book.

>> No.15489102

>>15486373
Not a bad summary desu

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15489136

meeting with a girl tomorrow and she's lending me a book about christianity, wish me luck bros

>> No.15489745

>>15489136
Best of luck, desu

>> No.15489780

In high school I tried to force the girl who was in charge of all the student movements to read anarchist theory. I've never been an anarchist but I just wanted to see if she would - she didn't - dropped

>> No.15491356

>>15485303
Yes x3